Streets, drugs, and the economy of sex in the age of AIDS

Women and Health

Volumn 27, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 205-229

  Weeks, Margaret R ^a   Grier, Maryland ^a   Romero Daza, Nancy ^b   Puglisi Vasquez, Mary Jo ^a   Singer, Merrill ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; CONDOM; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCOME; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; NORMAL HUMAN; PROSTITUTION; SAFETY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0031862397     PISSN: 03630242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J013v27n01_13     Document Type: Article

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